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Islam and modernity : key issues and debates / edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore, and Martin van Bruinessen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masud, Muhammad, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic modernism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. Th
- Contents:
- Preface; Part 1 Conceptualising Modernity; 1. Tradition and Modernity within Islamic Civilisation and the West, Armando Salvatore; 2. Western Scholars of Islam on the Issue of Modernity, Muhammad Khalid Masud and Armando Salvatore; Part 2 Negotiating Modernity; 3. Political Modernity in the Middle East, Sami Zubaida; 4. Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Gender: Perspectives from the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan, Deniz Kandiyoti; 5. Sufism, 'Popular' Islam and the Encounter with Modernity, Martin van Bruinessen; 6. Colonialism and Islamic Law, Ebrahim Moosa; Part 3 Debating Modernity; 7. The Reform Project in the Emerging Public Spheres, Armando Salvatore; 8. The Ulama and Contestations of Religious Authority under Modern Conditions, Muhammad Qasim Zaman; 9. Islamic Modernism, Muhammad Khalid Masud; 10. The Shifting Politics of Identity, Abdulkader Tayob; List of Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612620355
- 9781784025212
- 1784025216
- 9781282620353
- 1282620355
- 9780748637942
- 074863794X
- OCLC:
- 638860046
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